A Sunny Day in Pre-K: Batty for Halloween!

Our week 9 was a highly anticipated one as we have been counting down all month to get to our first party of the year, Halloween! Leading up to our party we learned about bats and other nocturnal animals. Our letter of the week was H/h, perfect for the our first holiday.

On Monday, we discussed words that begin with "H," haircuts, and also learned through the story "Nightsong," how bats use echolation to help them see at night.

A few things we both learned:

1. Out of all the h words in the world it was decided that "Hot baby!" was the best/funniest one. ;)

2. Echolation is a mouth full for a preschooler and when explaining what an echo is, be prepared for them to practice this multiple times (without an actual echo but repeating the same word over and over lol)

3. We have had a few instances with cutting our own hair recently so I decided to bring it up and discuss how and where scissors should be used. At the end I asked "Ok now who is only allowed to cut our hair?" (Expecting to get a response of a hairdresser or mom/dad) instead I had about 3 students yell "Kelsey!" haha (must have had this discussion at home already!

Throughout the week we discussed more about bats and owls and learned some fun facts, such as 1 bat can eat 600 mosquito's in 1 hour! When asked about this throughout the week, it did turn into (6 million, 66, and 6 billion infinity) but at least the 6 stuck! We also learned the name of the smallest bat, a bumble bee bat which is 5 inches long and the longest bat, called the flying fox bat that is 6 feet long. They were pretty entertained with this information, but I did have a few confused why they didn't look like foxes or bees if that was their name :)

We also read the book "Stellaluna" and learned how bats and birds are very similar, but very different as well. They loved this book and got quite a few laughs as Stellaluna, a bat, tries multiple times to act like a bird to fit in with her new bird family. I recommend reading this book!

Our art project focused on bats as well as they worked with their fine motor skills and painted the outline of a bat with Q-tips.

My hard little workers also had time this week to explore their take home bags, try some new games, and practice using their cards with different activities. I was so happy to see how much fun they were having with their bags and how well they were using them! Bags were then sent home Thursday and I have heard many good reports thus far, and can't wait to see their progress grow!

After a week filled with new knowledge, my little munsters finally got their party! We had a fun afternoon filled with candy corn bowling, black cat bean bag toss, a pumpkin walk, Halloween candy corn bingo, and pin the spider on the web. We then had some yummy snacks, a Halloween craft, and trick-or-treat bags! Thank you to all those that helped out with our party, the kids had a great time!! :)